LUDHIANA: In every other twist to the mysterious profits tax survey on Thursday’s three garment shops in the Bhadaur House region, an FIR has been registered against eight shopkeepers to disrupt the raid. According to the FIR, written by officers of the profits tax branch at Division 1 police station on Thursday, the accused effectively disrupted the survey, abused authorities officials, and threatened them. Shopkeepers named in the FIR consist of Gurwinder Singh, Surinder Kumar, Gurcharan, Bunty, Lucky, Rahul, Sonu, and Rishab Grover. Officials of the research wing Ludhiana — who until Thursday had been saying they did not conduct this action — couldn’t be contacted on the issue. However, TOI tracked down the principal complainant, deputy director of earnings tax (Parwanoo) Zahid Parvez, who showed that he and different officials — who had been leading the movement on Thursday — had a grievance with the police.
According to ASI Jagdish Singh, the investigating officer of the case, based totally upon a complaint received from income tax officials Zahid Parvez, Gaurav Bihari, Vijay Kumar Garg, Ashwani Kumar, and Mukand Singh Tiwana, an FIR was registered in opposition to eight shopkeepers under sections 353 (assault or crook pressure to discourage public servant from discharge of duty), 186 (obstructing public servant in discharge of shared characteristic), 506 (punishment for crook intimidation) and 294, 148,149. As of now, research is on this, and soon, a few arrests may be made.
Notably, Thursday’s profits tax raids were conducted on three stores located within the AC market in the Bhadaur House vicinity, while one is positioned outdoors. As soon as news of the attack unfolds, all the area shops have been closed, and hundreds of shopkeepers are amassed in the AC market. Additionally, unverified reviews of energy being intentionally shut down via the shopkeepers and resistance proved to the I-T teams, after which those teams lowered back. But a survey on the 1/3 store located out of doors the AC marketplace persisted on Thursday night as properly.
Mysterious diary behind I-T movement According to assets, this motion became the follow-up of I-T raids conducted in December final with the aid of the branch’s research wing (Ludhiana) on three leading builders and belongings dealers of the metropolis. The realtors are purchasing vintage homes, demolishing them to convert them into shops and shopping complexes, and even constructing residential complexes. During the December raid, a diary from a property dealer linked with these three businessmen changed into determined using I-T officers. This diary contains names and information of dozens of property dealings performed using the diary proprietor with other business people who have shops, places of work, and industrial belongings inside the AC marketplace and different areas. Sources additionally declare the names of 3 shopkeepers surveyed on Thursday to figure in this diary. However, senior officers of the investigation wing (Ludhiana) denied engaging in any raid on Thursday in Bhadaur House’s vicinity.
